Friday, May 25, 2012

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Have you read William Cardini's Vortex yet?! You should, and it's in our online store now! Rob Clough (High-Low, TCJ) says: "I've enjoyed Cardini's development as an artist and the refinement
of his heavily Mat Brinkman-influenced style. Cardini works big in this
sci-fi/fantasy battle comic, but more interestingly, he uses a
deliberately artificial-looking style of line. You can see the dots and
pixels on the page, giving the whole thing a cold and digital quality
that is trying to separate the reader from Brinkman's warm, organic and
oozing imagery. That slight distance and primitiveness of the line
quality (as opposed to the drawings themselves) adds a certain extra
comical layer to a story that involves a wizard quite graphically and
viscerally biting off the arm of a monster. The whole thing has a
light-hearted feel, much like the rest of Cardini's work, odd as it may
appear on the surface. Working bigger certainly suits him, and I enjoyed
looking at the images as images."

Tuesday, May 08, 2012

We've got our two latest publishing efforts in the store now! Nurse Nurse, a sci-fi epic by Katie Skelly and Brad Trip, an anthology of Portland Artists we put together with three other small press publishers for Free Comic Book Day. Please check them out!

Wednesday, May 02, 2012

Sparkplug is happy to be tabling at TCAF in Toronto this year! TCAF is a free show that takes place in the Toronto Reference Library. Tom and Emily will be there, please visit them and pick up a copy of our new book, Nurse Nurse! Click here for more info.

Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Hey East Coasters!
Please join Nurse Nurse artist Katie Skelly at Desert Island in Brooklyn for a book release and signing! The event starts at 8 p.m. on May 3rd. Desert Island is located at 540 Metropolitan in Brooklyn.